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Title: Shiny white cherry DS?
Post by: TheGrey on Sat, 08 December 2012, 10:39:58

Hi all!

I was wondering where to find these glossy double shot cherry keycaps? They feel so silky and weighted. Does any company make these keycaps?

Cheers,
Grey

Title: Re: Shiny white cherry DS?
Post by: jdcarpe on Sat, 08 December 2012, 10:42:29

It took dedicated secretaries many years of typing toil to produce keycaps with that wonderful ABS shine!

Title: Re: Shiny white cherry DS?
Post by: TheGrey on Sat, 08 December 2012, 10:52:10

lol...not sure if true or not... :D

Title: Re: Shiny white cherry DS?
Post by: Shadovved on Sat, 08 December 2012, 10:55:40

Quote from: TheGrey on Sat, 08 December 2012, 10:52:10

lol...not sure if true or not... :D

His words contain nothing but the purest truth  ;) ;)

Title: Re: Shiny white cherry DS?
Post by: IvanIvanovich on Sat, 08 December 2012, 11:09:05

Used Cherry set, shiny as hell like polished porcelain are not hard to come by.

Title: Re: Shiny white cherry DS?
Post by: TheGrey on Sat, 08 December 2012, 11:11:57

Quote from: lysol on Sat, 08 December 2012, 11:09:05

Used Cherry set, shiny as hell like polished porcelain are not hard to come by.

Awesome...so it is because of the type of plastic that is used? My mind cannot get around this as being true though  :-X  ahh the joys of being a n00b...

Title: Re: Shiny white cherry DS?
Post by: hashbaz on Sat, 08 December 2012, 11:15:53

Yep, if you type on keys made from ABS plastic long enough, they lose their texture and become porcelain smooth.

Title: Re: Shiny white cherry DS?
Post by: TheGrey on Sat, 08 December 2012, 11:20:15

nice  :) ..suppose I now need to google for some now!

 I seems that the current set I have is all german...so i've got normal ABS keycaps in the place of where german keys are

Btw how long does it take for the roughness to snare away? Or is there an way to artifically speed up the "ageing" process of the keys?

Title: Re: Shiny white cherry DS?
Post by: asura on Sat, 08 December 2012, 11:49:16

Or if you want to hurry things along - or make less used keys the uniform shiny or the more used keys - then you can use some emery paper/wet and dry to polish them... just don't do this with anything rare or the gods of vintage Cherry keycaps will smite you  :p

Title: Re: Shiny white cherry DS?
Post by: precarious on Sat, 08 December 2012, 15:02:26

i have some shiny black-on-white/beige doubleshots if you're interested ;0

i shined up a set of white-on-black doubleshots within a few months of heavy use

Title: Re: Shiny white cherry DS?
Post by: dorkvader on Sun, 09 December 2012, 18:39:40

You can also shine them yourself with sandpaper if they aren't shiny enough already.